[New Zimbabwe] ZIMBABWE is facing an acute bread shortage after millers threatened to stop producing flour due to scarcity of wheat while bakers are pushing for permission to sell [...]

Country: Zimbabwe

Region: Africa

Date: 25-Jun-2022

[Ayin English] Musa Ali, a baker in Bahri, North Khartoum, is not looking forward to working in the days ahead. "The price of bread will go up --my customers will not be happy--and [...]

Country: Sudan

Region: Africa

Date: 25-Jun-2022

[VOA] New York -- U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told an international conference on food security Friday that the world is facing the "real risk" of multiple famines this [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 25-Jun-2022

[Shabelle] The United Nations humanitarian agency said Friday it's seeking 993.3 million U.S. dollars to provide life-saving and life-sustaining assistance to prevent famine and re [...]

Country: Somalia

Region: Africa

Date: 25-Jun-2022

[GhanaToday] Ghana spent two billion dollars to import food yearly, a situation that can be avoided if the energy of the youth is channelled toward agriculture. [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 23-Jun-2022

[Maka] Humanitarian organizations are warning of an impending food emergency in southern Angola as the region faces the aftermath of the worst recorded drought in nearly half a cen [...]

Country: Angola

Region: Africa

Date: 23-Jun-2022

[The Conversation Africa] Somalia is on the brink of catastrophe. A recent assessment suggests that 7.7 million Somalis need emergency aid right now, a similar number to those affe [...]

Country: Somalia

Region: Africa

Date: 23-Jun-2022

[Govt of Liberia] The President of the Republic, H.E. Dr. George Manneh Weah, Tuesday, June 21, 2022 welcomed a United Arab Emirates (UAE) government delegation to Liberia and prai [...]

Country: Liberia

Region: Africa

Date: 23-Jun-2022

[Nile Post] MPs on the parliamentary committee on Trade, Tourism and Industry have praised Bukona Agro Processors Limited, a local investor in Nwoya district, for processing cassav [...]

Country: Uganda

Region: Africa

Date: 23-Jun-2022

The Lagos State Government, South-west Nigeria, has restated its commitment to boosting food production by providing quality farm implements for farmers in the State. The State Co [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 22-Jun-2022

Stakeholders in Nigeria’s agricultural sector have disclosed plans to address all the bottlenecks hindering active youth participation in agriculture. The Deputy Director-Genera [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 22-Jun-2022

[Foroyaa] The Gambia Government under the Leadership of President Adama Barrow through its Spokesperson, yesterday announced a reduction in the price of a bag of fertilizer from D2 [...]

Country: Gambia

Region: Africa

Date: 22-Jun-2022

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Many Regions in Ethiopia are currently experiencing one of the most severe La Niña-induced droughts in recent decades, with more than 8 million peo [...]

Country: Ethiopia

Region: Africa

Date: 22-Jun-2022

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s ,West Africa PRO-Cashew and African Cashew Alliance (ACA) are working on increasing Nigeria’s cashew production to 500,000 [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 17-Jun-2022

An expert and stakeholder in the agriculture sector has disclosed that Nigeria’s agriculture research sector loses about $100 million annually to its inability to attract grants [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 17-Jun-2022

By Zeniat Abubakar, Abuja The Nigerian Government has launched its 2022 National Tree Planting Campaign. Minister of Environment Mr Abdullahi Muhammed disclosed this in Abuja, the [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 17-Jun-2022

By Ene Okwanihe, Abuja The Government of President Muhammadu Buhari maintains that food security remains a key policy in the country. The National Biotechnology Development Agency [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 17-Jun-2022

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's Region (SNNPR) Agriculture Bureau said the new arrivals of armyworms have settled on, and affected [...]

Region: N/A

Date: 17-Jun-2022

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- As the world marks Food Safety Day, Upfield, the largest plant-based consumer products company in the world and manufacturer of Blueband range of products h [...]

Region: N/A

Date: 17-Jun-2022

[The Conversation Africa] In parts of Africa, a small bird called the Greater Honeyguide (Indicator indicator) helps people search for honey. It approaches people and chatters and [...]

Region: N/A

Date: 17-Jun-2022

[Vanguard] The Consul General of The Peoples' Republic of China in Lagos, Chu Maoming, has expressed the importance of sustaining food security, saying, it is sad to see that in ma [...]

Region: N/A

Date: 17-Jun-2022

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Malnutrition rates across east and south-eastern Ethiopia have soared in recent months as drought, displacement and conflict take their toll with ab [...]

Region: N/A

Date: 17-Jun-2022

[The Point] Fertiliser is an important ingredient in ensuring healthy soil, thus boosting crop production. Increasing crop yields is essential and key if any nation is ready to pro [...]

Region: N/A

Date: 17-Jun-2022

[The Point] Following general anxiety and vexing public outcry over this summer's published fertilizer price, President Adama Barrow has further subsidized the official price of fe [...]

Region: N/A

Date: 17-Jun-2022

[New Times] Other countries like Argentina, Brazil, India, have stepped in to fill the global wheat supply gap that was created by the Russia-Ukraine war, The New Times has learnt. [...]

Region: N/A

Date: 17-Jun-2022